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Himedia H8 - Firmware 1.0.9 - First Impressions

I started to test firmware 1.0.9 yesterday. Overall I am quite happy with it so far. Positive: Quick and easy upgrade A bit strange but some of the settings and files were still there (e.g. documents in the download folder) The status/notification + navigation bar is back - also in the normal Google Now launcher. That is already a huge improvement. The image in the previous firmware version seemed to be very pale & colorless. With the new firmware version I found out why: The default brightness level is relatively high. In the old version you did not have the notification bar, so brightness could not be changed. In the new version you can adapt it and now the colors look way better. No lip sync issues so far Room for improvement: What is still problematic is the internal storage reserved for the system & apps (the default location) which is still limited to 2GB. If you install new applications the message about not enough storage still appears - although there

Himedia H8 - New firmware (1.0.9) arrived

It took a bit, but Himedia just released a new firmware (1.0.9) for the Himedia H8 octacore box. The firmware can be downloaded here . More information and a short manual about how to do the upgrade can be found on the Himedia support page .